The girl’s leg got caught in between two sea barrier boulders (Picture: RNLI)

Dramatic footage has been released of a Welsh lifeboat team saving a girl from drowning in the rising tide after getting her foot trapped in between two rocks.

The New Quay inshore RNLI lifeboat service was forced into a race against the clock as they feared that the waters could rise above the young girl’s head before they could free her on Friday afternoon.

One lifeboat member’s helmet camera captured the tense ordeal, in which 17-year-old Tom Evans, on his first ever call out, was forced to climb underneath the girl and cut her wellington boots off her feet.

The lifeboat crew feared the tide would come in before they could save her (Picture: RNLI)

The terrified girl can be heard in the video telling the lifeboat team: ‘I was playing hide and seek and I slipped’.

RNLI mechanic Ben Billingham, who was also part of the rescue operation in Aberaeron on the West Coast of Wales, told Wales Online: ‘We reached the scene and it really was quite dramatic as waves were beginning to crash against the rocks.’

He added that the boulders trapping the girl’s leg weigh ‘about six or seven tonnes and can only be described as giant rocks’.

Thankfully the rescue ended well (Picture: RNLI)

Mr Evans was the only member of the team small enough to fit in the gap and was praised by his new colleagues for his work.

Mr Billingham said: ‘It was certainly one of the more unusual incidents we have attended, but we never quite know what to expect when the call for help comes.

‘We’re just glad the incident came to a positive conclusion and it was certainly an interesting first shout for Tom.’